The Flying Fortress could hold a crew of 10 and was warmed with 10 .50-caliber machine guns. The B-17 platform played an instrumental role during WWII. As detailed by the National World War II ...

"The Cold Blue" chronicles the heroism of those B-17 bomber crews of WWII who took to the sky to face the horrors of enemy fighters and clouds of flak, day after day. By James Clark Posted on May ...

The surviving member of the flight crew of the World War II-era B-17 bomber that crashed at Bradley International Airport last fall told federal investigators he believes the pilot “froze” in ...

An F-15C Eagle is sporting a badass World War II-era paint job in honor ... David Kingsley’s B-17 was about to crash. The aircraft had been riddled by enemy flak and incoming fire from fighters ...

This image taken from video provided by National Transportation Safety Board shows damage from a World War II-era B-17 bomber plane that crashed Wednesday at Bradley International Airport ...

Painted to look like another B-17 of WWII (Nine-o-Nine, variant B-17G-30-BO), this late-model B-17G-85-DL aircraft wasn’t finished in time to join World War II, but instead spent its 74 years ...

The B-32 only flew some recon missions and engaged in some skirmishes in the closing days of WWII before being retired and ...

According to the Allies, one of the most critical aspects of winning World War II was establishing air superiority over ...

According to the agency, as of May, more than 81,000 Americans remain missing from WWII, the Korean War ... soldiers who would have been on the B-17 plane when it crashed. While the team can ...